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CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Yeah, well I had a thread devoted to the topic, and voting and comments made by other mods and users, and there was good points made on every side, but a sub-forum just didn't seem appropriate at this juncture.

Perhaps, if emulation gets a lot of discussion I can reopen the sub-forum idea again, the sub-forum got a lot of interest as well.

And, as for the one thread, I just popped in a general chit chat thread, it's up to other users to generate the topics and threads they want to discuss around emulation, rather than me determining the headings alone.

But I will listen to the regulars as always, and I would ask that it's given a couple of months, if by October it's not working out I will switch the forum back or explore again the idea of a sub-forum.

This is the thing, it'll get messy with emulation threads among the regular stuff. But I understand the forum has been a shadow of its former self the last year or so and the need to get more people on using it. I just think a sub forum is the better/cleaner way to go(if someone should make a emulation thread elsewhere or on the main A&R, a mod can just drop it in the emulation subsection).

And the name change, it cheapens what was/is A&R for me here on Boards. I know that sounds silly, but its how I feel on it.

Anyway, it's just my take on it, and anyone who knows me or the other sites I'm involved with knows I'm absolutely a big fan of emulation!
Sorry to go on about it, I just had to speak my mind on this

Can it not be Arcade, Retro and FPGA instead? At least those are proper simulations of hardware.

brianregan09 wrote: »

wow are people really that petty that they would refuse to post in here because emulation is in the title now O_O

I'd agree with this, not the most regular poster here by any means but it seems like a fairly minor change, were threads to end up as say, console specific it'd hardly clog up that much of an already quiet forum.

So the correct title would be ?

Arcade, Retro, Simulation and possibly emulation for the great unwashed

So long as the place doesn't get swamped with people just looking for prebuild Pi images we should be ok

Josiah Clever Shin wrote: »

Maybe there is a different way to look at this. Without emulation, interest in retro gaming would surely be much less, with the barriers to entry too high for casual retro gamers.

Would there be as many forums, YouTube channels and even some magazines devoted to retro gaming without emulation?

I think the subject matter is fine, it's the placing of it in this forum which I dont think is the best idea. Emulation can be a complex subject, it needs its own stickies, it's own per topic threads, it's own per emulator threads in some cases. It needs to be given space to grow, and I don't believe it can in this forum...if people here were interested in creating threads on retroarch et al they'd have done so already. The regulars and users here want to know about scart cables, scalers, consoles, prices for games etc...and that's fine.

It's akin to sticking formula 1 discussion in the classic cars forum, because eyre both about cars aren't they? The two audiences are different, and while yes, there is some crossover, I don't think the similarities are enough to meld the two topics. As said above, I can see the emulation topics dying a death in here before long.

Cidey, you're a good man and Boards is lucky to have you, we'll support whatever way you feel is best here in the end

Ideally the name should have been Arcade, Retro & Systems Emulation...